pancake

Definition of Pancake in English :

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Noun

1. battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake

a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pancake

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noun

1.

a.

a thin flat cake made from batter and fried on both sides, often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture

b.

(as modifier)

pancake mix

2. a Scot name for drop scone

3.

a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up

4. Also called: pancake landing

an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it

verb

5.

to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancake landing

Pancake

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noun

1.

a thin, flat cake of batter fried on a griddle or in a pan; griddlecake; flapjack

2.

a landing in which the airplane levels off higher than for a normal landing, stalls, then drops almost vertically

: in full pancake landing

3. US

pancake makeup

verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpanˌcaked or ˈpanˌcaking

4.

to make, or cause (an airplane) to make, a pancake landing

Pancake

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n.

A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.

v. pan·caked, pan·cak·ing, pan·cakes

v.tr.

To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.

v.intr.

1. To make a pancake landing.

2. To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.

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